129 of 365 of What it is Like to Run a Resort

Sunday, November 21, 2010.

The picture is of John and his friend, Lorrie Jarrett in a pocket park in downtown Seattle. We were there earlier in the month. The park is in appreciation to all who worked for the UPS.

I got up early and went to church. It was fun to see everybody again. Its been awhile. After church I went grocery shopping in preparation for Thanksgiving dinner. I forgot my list at home, bummer, so I didn't get everything but will go back before Thanksgiving anyway.

The Packers play at noon so after I got home I made some snacks to put in the lodge. Some of our deer hunters came in to watch some of the game before they hit the road. The Packers beat the Vikings and it was a great game. It turns out the Vikings fired their coach a couple of days later.

I did some laundry from the cabins. John did some paperwork. We didn't do much else outside because there was a coating of ice everywhere. I threw some salt on the sidewalks of the cabins again so none of the deer hunters would slip. John went to the Alder and Aspen cabins and turned off the hot water, refrigerators and turned down the heat. The hunters in those cabins left today. Tomorrow I will clean Alder.

John's mom walked up to the dumpsters with a bag of garbage. John was upset with her because it is up a hill of glare ice. She's 83. She said she had been worried about John because he had gone up that way and she hadn't seen him in awhile. John had taken a walk down the trail and through the woods and came out in the opposite direction. So he was even more upset with her for walking up that way on the ice.

I went into the basement later and organized more of my quilting fabric. We are going to be moving to Door County for the winter and if I don't get a job of any sort there, sewing is going to be my job. The only problem is I want to take it all with me.

Later we watched some movies and football games. No one came into the lodge for any drinks or anything. But our hunters came in to ask where they could hang the deer they shot. John talked to them for awhile about where to hang it and where our ladders were. Cool.

It was a good day.